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The auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides often censures ministers publicly for not following correct procedures or overstepping the boundaries of their authority. But what happens when he does the same? Can anyone ...

Nothing illustrates better the deference extended to unions by the politicians than the president’s traditional address of the annual congress of the public employees’ union Pasydy, in the presence ...

Defending Akel’s decision to boycott the speech in the House of Representatives via video link by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, deputy Aristos Damianou said the party had “reservations about ...

So the government has finally decided to set us free from our Covid shackles, not completely, but enough to make life a good deal easier for everyone. The extent of ...

After President Anastasiades’ meeting with the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, the government spokesman issued a written statement in which he said, they discussed the ...

The general manager of the Federation of Employers and Industrialists (OEV), Michalis Antoniou should be congratulated for speaking so directly about the need to end all the measures in place ...

Reports that the Cyprus government had been asked to give its Russian-made weapon systems to Ukraine has put the government in a quandary. Although Defence Minister Charalambos Petrides ruled this ...

The discovery of corpses with their hands bound and a mass grave in the town of Bucha, pictures of which, as well as testimony from survivors, were reproduced in the ...

The Cyprus psychiatric association this week recommended its members respect the gender identity and sexual orientation of their patients, following reports over incidents of conversion therapy. The statement came only ...

Many were baffled, to put it mildly, by the government’s decision on Wednesday to approve a bill giving the commerce minister the power to set a maximum gross profit ...

Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), gave a thorough analysis of the problems facing the euro area as a consequence of the Russia-Ukraine war that came ...

Yiannis Karousos, minister of transport, communications and works, and Savvas Perdios, deputy minister of tourism, on Tuesday, spoke of the need to attract ‘quality tourism’ that would endure in times ...

The voting of the bills for the creation of a deputy ministry for culture were put off again last Thursday. These bills have been in the pipeline since 2020, discussed at ...

High prices of fuel, grain, meat and vegetables have become a popular subject for the media. Indignant stories about the the constantly rising price of fuel, the soaring cost of ...

A letter, demanding that the twice-yearly exams for lyceums should be scrapped, was sent to the education minister and it was signed by secondary school teachers’ union Oelmek, the confederation ...

The closing of RCB bank was announced by the bank itself on Thursday, ending speculation about its future that was fuelled by Tuesday’s announcement of the sale of a ...

Despite this year’s extended cold snap, we’re only a couple of months away from probably yet another scorching summer, which was brought home to us on Monday during ...

After months of dithering and mixed signals that gave rise to speculation about his intentions, President Nicos Anastasiades on Sunday finally spoke in a clear and direct way about next ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its fourth week, appears to have boosted the importance of the Eastern Mediterranean’s natural gas deposits. The EU has resolved to end ...

BEFORE the University of Cyprus was set up, there was a big debate about the language that should be used. One camp was in favour of English as this would ...

The arrogance with which the ambassador of the Russian Federation, Stanislav Osadchiy, addresses Greek Cypriots never ceases to astonish. When he gives an interview, and he has given more in ...

When it comes to thinking up excuses for delaying the submission of tax returns deputies are very resourceful and imaginative. On Monday, Diko deputy Panicos Leonidou tabled two bills that ...

Amid all the furore of the state of the Pournara migrant facility this past week, the delicate issue arose of questioning whether all migrants who claim to be minors are ...

In the six days from last Tuesday to Sunday, a total of about 550,000 PCR and rapid tests were carried out, an average of 91,000 tests per day. The most tests – 133,874 – were ...